"Is my situation normal?" Li Shiming muttered to himself after sensing the state of the spiritual lake in his body.
He did not feel the slightest bit happy or proud about being promoted to the Foundation Establishment stage without using the Foundation Establishment Pill. Was he the kind of person who was short of this Foundation Establishment Pill?
The biggest problem at this time is whether the 'Five Elements Air Gathering Array' in the Spirit Lake will have an impact on the future practice of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art'.
The 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' no longer drives the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Art'. After all, the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Art' is only a Qi Refining Stage technique. After reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, the effect of this technique in absorbing spiritual energy cannot meet the needs of the Spirit Lake at all.
Li Shiming's mind entered the Spirit Lake, and he finally sensed the situation of the five nodes of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'.
Those five nodes had a familiar aura to him, which was exactly the five elements energy of the second-grade Iron Li Lingmu, green crystal, flame crystal, earth stone, and wood-turned iron.
Through the external 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array', he actually transferred the five elements energy of the external 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' into his body to form an internal 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'.
Fortunately, with IBMz15, all his experiences in cultivation since his retreat were recorded, so he could carefully study the connections between them later.
The amount of liquid spiritual power in his spiritual lake was a little small, but when he called upon the liquid spiritual power, he was 100% sure that this was definitely not the spiritual power that could be achieved in the early stages of ordinary foundation building.
He has dealt with many cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, and has fought with them before. He has his own judgment on the spiritual power of cultivators in the early stage of foundation building.
Although his liquid spiritual power is extremely small in quantity, its quality can reach the level of spiritual power at the middle stage of foundation building breakthrough.
Li Shiming couldn't help but think of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' again. Could this be the effect of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'?
The most critical thing at the moment is to try to practice the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' to see if the 'Five Elements Air Gathering Array' will have any impact on the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art'. If it does, his future practice will be a big problem.
After reaching the foundation-building stage, he completely absorbed the foundation-building chapter of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art'. He was no longer in a state of confusion as before, where he could only see part of the content.
The 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' cultivates thunder spiritual power. According to the situation of one's own spiritual power, one can choose to cultivate thunder spiritual power of a certain attribute, or choose to cultivate thunder spiritual power of several attributes.
When Li Shiming saw this, he couldn't help but have an idea in his mind. Now that he has all the spiritual powers of the five elements, can he try to cultivate the five elements of thunder spiritual power at the same time?
Before that, all he needed to do was absorb spiritual energy into his body.
The 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' is worthy of being a top-level martial art. The basis for practicing the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' is the foundation-building period.
Even with his physical condition, he felt a tingling sensation in his meridians when he practiced the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' for the first time.
How could he know that any top-level martial arts required certain qualifications and it was not something that could be practiced casually like he did.
The biggest requirement of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' is physical fitness. The practice of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' has extremely high physical requirements. A weaker body simply cannot withstand its sudden absorption and circulation of spiritual energy.
In other words, Li Shiming's physique is extremely abnormal, so he meets the requirements for practicing the "Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art".
In fact, if a normal foundation-building cultivator wants to choose to practice the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art', he must at least become a foundation-building cultivator and practice a body-refining technique to the great perfection realm before he can begin to try to practice the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art'.
The body of a foundation-building cultivator has already been transformed during the foundation-building process, and he also needs to master the body-refining techniques. This shows how high the requirements of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' are.
The requirements of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' are high, but the effect is also good. As the meridians in his body tingled, a large amount of golden spiritual energy poured into his body, and was transformed into liquid golden lightning spiritual power during the extremely fast operation of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art'.
At this time, as soon as the golden liquid thunder spiritual power entered the spiritual lake, it was circulated by the "Five Elements Gas Gathering Array" first, forming the purest five elements thunder spiritual power that can be achieved in the initial stage of foundation building.
Until this point, Li Shiming finally felt relieved. It seemed that the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' was also able to transform thunder spiritual power, and it did not change the characteristics of thunder spiritual power, but only transformed the power of the five elements.
Although the amount of the Five Elements Spiritual Thunder Power cultivated at one time is relatively small, its quality has also reached the extreme of the initial stage of foundation building.
Li Shiming stretched out a finger, and on his finger, a trace of golden thunder spiritual power was jumping. Then the golden thunder spiritual power was taken back into the spiritual lake and replaced with wood thunder spiritual power. After that, the five elements of thunder spiritual power appeared on his fingers in turn.
According to the records of "Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art" and his own feelings, the golden lightning spiritual power has the strongest offensiveness, especially to metallic spiritual objects.
Wood-attributed thunder spiritual power is somewhat special. It is most effective against cold and yin energy attacks, and it is also one of the rare thunder spiritual powers that can produce healing effects. Attack and healing can be switched at will.
The water-attributed thunder spiritual power is the most sinister. It can be hidden in the outside world for a long time, waiting for an instant of explosion.
Fire-attributed lightning spiritual power is the most explosive, with splash and explosion effects when attacking.
The earth-attributed thunder spiritual power is the most powerful. After a long period of accumulation, it can burst out with the strongest attack.
The specific use of the five elements of thunder spiritual power needs to be used according to the combat environment. Usually, thunder magic practitioners only practice one or two of them at most, which is enough to deal with many battles. His practice of the five elements of thunder spiritual power should be enough to deal with all environments.
At this time, IBMz15 gave an analysis report, which was an analysis report on his practice of using the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'.
Based on all the knowledge of cultivating immortals that he has acquired so far, including the classics in the Wei family library that he obtained this time, he came up with the current report.
The 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' will be of great help to him during the foundation-building period, allowing his spiritual power to have the five elements' attributes during the foundation-building period, while maintaining his spiritual power in the purest state at the same level.
These benefits allow him to break through the realm directly when the spiritual power in his body has accumulated enough, without having to spend a lot of time compressing and purifying the spiritual power like other cultivators.
But the disadvantage also exists, that is, the current "Five Elements Qi Gathering Array". Since the energy of the five elements array inside is of the second grade, it can only support his use during the foundation-building period.
According to IBMz15's analysis, if he wanted to advance to the Golden Core stage, in addition to having spiritual power that met the standards and having enough resources for a breakthrough, he would also need a set of third-grade five-element formation materials.
Li Shiming felt overwhelmed when he saw this.
It was he who asked the Tianhai Sect for the second-grade materials for the Five Elements Formation. At that time, Sect Leader Yu was almost pissed off to death by him. If he hadn't wanted him to participate in the most dangerous life-and-death duel, he would never have been able to get the second-grade materials for the Five Elements Formation.
The second-grade five-element formation materials were already so troublesome, and he didn't even dare to ask for the third-grade five-element formation materials.
The third grade is a grade that only Jindan cultivators can access.
If he had an elder in the Jindan stage, perhaps this would be possible!
"Wait, I seem to have it, but it's a pity that Elder Yin may not be able to produce the materials for the third-grade Five Elements Formation!" Li Shiming thought of something, shook his head helplessly and muttered to himself.
It seems that I should join a large sect as soon as possible, and then use the identity of a high-level formation master to have access to formation materials.
By then, no matter if he uses stealing, robbing or cheating, he must get a set of third-grade five-element formation materials, which is related to his path to the golden elixir.
"No, will we still need fourth-grade five-element formation materials in the future?" Li Shiming then thought of another important thing, and his face became even uglier.
He felt like he had dug a huge hole and foolishly jumped into it.
"We'll talk about it when the time comes!" He gave up thinking and decided to wait until he reached that level before talking about it!
Li Shiming took out nine flying sword spiritual weapons. Now that he had become a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could finally use spiritual weapons.
Although there is little spiritual power in the body, it is still possible to refine spiritual weapons.
Normally, a cultivator who has just established his foundation will give priority to refining a defensive spiritual weapon if conditions permit.
Li Shiming is a high-level formation master and has long coveted the nine flying sword spiritual weapons. These are not just flying sword spiritual weapons, they also have the effect of formation flags.
He no longer needed to use the 'Dragon's Finishing Point Technique' to refine spiritual tools, but instead used the refining method in the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique'.
The 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' is not just about cultivating thunder spiritual power, it also includes a variety of ways to apply thunder spiritual power, including attack, control, treatment, refining and so on.
And as your realm improves, more application methods will appear.
He mobilized the spiritual power of golden thunder and pointed his finger at the spiritual sword marked with the center palace. Golden electric light covered the blade of the spiritual sword, and soon he established a connection with the spiritual sword.
The reason for choosing the Zhonggong Sword is because it is the main sword among the nine flying sword spirit weapons.
Of course, this was his judgment, but after refining the Zhonggong Sword, he not only established a spiritual connection with the Zhonggong Sword, but also with the other eight flying swords.
This is the advantage of a set of spiritual weapons. You don’t need to refine each and every spiritual weapon. Instead, you can control the entire set by refining the main spiritual weapon.
'Nine Palace Sword Formation' is the name of this set of nine flying sword magic weapons. Even though the refining effect of the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' is extremely strong, it still requires multiple refinings to achieve 100% refining.
However, this time only one tenth of the energy was refined. After nine more refining steps, it would reach 100% refinement.
After reaching one-tenth of the refining level, Li Shiming was able to use the Zhonggong Sword as a flying sword. Although its controllability and power could not reach the strongest, it was enough for practice.
Of course, with his current spiritual power, it is still very difficult for him to fully control the nine flying swords. This requires him to accumulate more spiritual power to do so.
However, his spiritual power met the requirements. Driven by the "Sword Control Technique", the Zhonggong Sword was flying in the cave.
He is in the foundation-building stage, and his "Sword Controlling Art" is a little out of date. There is no foundation-building exercise for the "Sword Controlling Art", so it seems that he needs to find a new sword control method.
The sword intent, which had not made much progress before, increased by nearly two times when he was flying the sword.
I guess this is because of the realm. The sword intent is too advanced, and it is far from enough for the Qi Refining Stage to control it.
According to his estimation, once he completely refined the Nine Palace Sword Formation, with his current sword intent, he would be able to break the spiritual imprint in the spiritual weapon of a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building within five swords.
More importantly, he felt that the sword intent he mastered should be able to be used on his clone.
As he thought to himself, half of his consciousness returned to his clone.
In an instant, he felt weak, as if his whole body was powerless.
Both the body and the soul that bears consciousness have an inexplicable feeling of weakness.
The contrast is particularly obvious. The original body is already in the foundation-building stage, and no matter how strong the clone's physique is and how much spiritual power he possesses, he still feels the clone's weakness compared to the original body's equally or even stronger body and enhanced spiritual power.
Li Shiming's consciousness first got used to it for a while before he controlled his clone to flick the golden fencing sword.
The golden sword flew out, and as he channeled his understanding of the sword's intent into flying the sword, a hint of sword's intent appeared in the sword's light. Although it was not as strong as the original body, it was thought that after a period of practice after the foundation-building stage, the sword's intent would be developed.
"Fellow Daoist, it's up to you from now on!" The main body stood up, took out seven foundation-building pills and handed them over.
"Fellow Daoist, you probably won't need so many!" The clone replied with a smile as he took the seven Foundation Establishment Pills.
Li Shiming did not plan to let his clone use the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'. On the one hand, he could not find a set of second-grade five-element array materials in Beishu in a short time. The fact that he could possess a top-grade spiritual vein here was something he had to rob.
On the other hand, he didn't know whether the 'Five Elements Air Gathering Array' in the spiritual lake of his main body was a big trap. It would be enough to trap only one of them, and there was no need to trap the clone as well.
It is better for the clone to advance in the most normal way and advance to the foundation-building stage.
The clone sat at the spiritual energy outlet of the top-grade spiritual vein in the hall and began to practice the 'Five Elements Spirit Gathering Technique', absorbing the spiritual energy into the body and then forcibly filling it into the spiritual energy vortex.
The clone had reached the peak of Qi Refining a long time ago. If it hadn't been for helping the original body, it would have broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage long ago.
Probably, no one with a natural spiritual root would delay for so long without trying to advance after reaching the limit in spiritual power, spiritual consciousness and physical training.
A stream of spiritual power was thrown into the spiritual energy vortex. The spiritual energy vortex of the clone had already reached its limit. The addition of this stream of spiritual power immediately triggered a chain reaction.
The spiritual energy vortex shook violently, but without any violent reaction, it shrank into a spiritual lake.
As the spiritual energy vortex turned into a spiritual lake, a stream of energy flowed to every part of the clone's body. Both his physique and soul were strengthened, completely transformed into a body and soul of the foundation-building period.
Li Shiming, who was standing aside and watching, looked at the time. The exact time given by IBMz15 was 31 seconds before the clone successfully broke through.
It is possible that the suppression was too severe, and the clone was promoted after receiving a spiritual power from the spiritual energy vortex.
No foundation-building pills were used, and there was no long wait.
Li Shiming couldn't help but shook his head. This was the difference in spiritual talent.
Even though the main body did not use the Foundation Establishment Pill, it still took the main body three full months to break through, and it was left with troubles that it was unclear whether they were a blessing or a curse.